Night Trains, Paperback

Recapturing the glamour and intrigue of the night train, the author charts its rise and fall and rediscovers the pleasures of a continent connected...

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Indonesian Ferry Sinks. Peruvian Bus Plunges Off Cliff. African Train Attacked by Mobs. Whenever he picked up the newspaper, Carl Hoffman noticed t...

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Living with her father Fred, her younger twin siblings, Harry and Polly, and self-centred Granny Garter, Hester toils day and night in the laundry ...

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The Southern Railway may not have been the most glamorous of the 'Big Four' companies that emerged from the grouping of 1923, but it was the great ...

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Amongst the numerous hand-written manuscripts that the poet and artist Michael Glendening left after his death in 1995 was the note: "The following...

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DescriptionIn The Eclipse I Call Father: Essays on Absence, David Axelrod recalls a balmy night in May 1970 when he vowed to allow no one and nothi...

DescriptionWhen she hears about the suicide of a Buenos Aires train driver who has left a note confessing to four mortal 'accidents' on the train t...

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In 1935, well into the era of Soviet communism, Russian satirical writers Ilya Ilf and Evgeny Petrov came to the U.S as special correspondents for ...

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Count the first twelve days of preschool with this fun-filled picture book inspired by "The 12 Days of Christmas"--perfect for fans of Natasha Wing...

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Contributor(s): Author: Daniel AcostaA river runs through young Manny Maldonado Jr.'s life, heart and imagination. Sometimes at night it even shoot...

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Now that Alexandra "Alex" Donovan is finally free of her troubled upbringing, she's able to live out her childhood dream of working for the FBI. Bu...

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In a uniquely entertaining book by a rising star, here are uncanny true tales of haunted highways, weird encounters, and legends of the road.It may...